#all about growth and plants

[ministarfruit]

TIME FOR HOPE TO SPROUT!!🌱

Here's a preview of the piece I did for @seedsofhopezine, a digital charity zine!

Preorders are currently open until September 1st, store linked below.

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SEEDS OF HOPE ON BIGCARTEL

#danganronpa #fanzine #preview #makoto naegi #komaru naegi #papaya: naegi makoto #kumquat: naegi komaru #I LOVE THE EGG SIBLINGS SO MUCH #LOOK AT THEM!!!! #this is such a lovely project #all about growth and plants #we love to see it we do we do we do #SOME REALLY AMAZING FOLIAGE TOO LIKE #IF YOU LIKE PLANTS YOU'LL LIKE IT FOR SURE

[its-ate-oclock-somewhere]

Futamono Flower Meaning

So you're telling me that the very night after Will whore Graham sent someone to murder Hannibal simp Lecter, the man created this?!

#will graham #hannibal #hannibal lecter #murder husbands #hannigram #nbc hannibal #hannibal is a simp #SUCH a simp #“oh? you sent someone to slit my wrists at a swimming pool?” #*instant heart eyes* #also #can we just #talk about these flower meanings for a sec?! #cause like #everlasting love and passion and affection and all that #we already knew #but resilience?! #caution?! #forgiveness?! #hope?! #graTITUDE?!?! #this man straight up almost died #and here's out here #planting a garden #to celebrate his future lover's attempted murder #because “growth” is making him think Will is finally accepting his darker side #and “desire” is him lusting after it #and “everlasting love?!” not just love but everlASTING #this man has it SO bad #it's embarassing

[throttlegainwell]

Weirdly, I think my number 1 blorbo woman is Amy Sosa from Superstore. She's just got it all for me. I love her so, so much. I don't have a ton of desire to write fic for her (except sometimes porn), but rest assured I think about her regularly. No one's doing it like her.

#amy sosa #superstore #i actually love all the women on that show a ton #but i fucking love amy she's perfect in her imperfections #so fucking smart but allowed to have her stupid moments and knowledge gaps #kind of prickly but deeply kind and cares so much about her people #takes cheyenne under her wing but tries not to be obvious about it #reluctant leader but she'll rise to the occasion #can be obsessive and irrational but has the self-awareness to see she's careening off the deep end #have i mentioned fiercely loyal omg it takes some time to get in there but once someone does... #and she's so goddamn funny #i love her when she fails i love her when she succeeds #and i can't believe i fell so hard for a sitcom character #who saw that kind of depth coming from a sitcom! #but her growth! her character development! exquisite! #her whole arc is amazing and deep down i want everyone to love her #she starts out unhappy but unable to imagine better but not really making that unhappiness anyone's problem #because she's a responsible mature adult firmly planted in reality #and by the end she's finally able to grab opportunity with both hands and not just reach for something better #but something she actually WANTS #also jonah i'll never be over their relationship but like this is about amy rn

[bombusbombus]

recoloured this old warmup to repost cause I had it on my mind.

If Clark is going to be in earth 19 (gotham by gaslight universe) (they're publishing more gbg and clark is going to be there), then listen to me listen to me, he needs to be a cowboy. Superman needs to be a cowboy in the big city. I am SOO serious about this. I am on my knees, DC, let me write for you, I would add so many themes about modern technology versus traditional knowledge and sprinkle in some anticolonialism PLEASE.

You could have a cute little Daily Planet that has to struggle against yellow journalism in a smoky little backroom & setting their own type, a la The Truth. You could have gentlemen's clubs. You could have a brutal war against unions in the streets and one lone titan of industry giving into their demands. You could have the exact same 3 batkids from the movie, there's literally nothing to improve on there. You could have Clark tear down a barbed wire fence with his bare hands, in a futile attempt to unravel colonialist ideas of private land ownership. Imagine the alien knows more about the earth, the real earth, than the knight in his city does. Imagine the American dream failing Clark, who has to go back east to the big city, failing Bruce, who lost his parents, failing everyone over and over until they decide to build something without it. In an era of rampant exploitation, what do real heroes look like?

Or you can make the justice league fight big steampunk robots ig I'm excited either way.

#all that to say ask me about the gotham by gaslight superbat friendship I've been thinking about for a LITERAL YEAR... #the original colouring on this was only the sort of ass you can achieve with a blue light filter at 2am #also I can hear you saying “why do your warmups usually look better than your final drawings Moose?” #(shh let me imagine I have a huge rapt audience) #well. I have aphantasia which makes it much harder to make things up than to draw from life #however my passion is cartooning. so I'm a little fucked #I also have a disability that sometimes makes me run a temperature when I overexert myself mentally #so drawing cartoons can make me run a literal fever #whereas drawing from life is more abt hand skill than brain skill so it doesn't fuck me up #but that's why I don't draw much anymore lol. Arranging people and items and background on a canvas is excruciating trial and error #but when you already have a pic the photographer has done some of that for you and you just need to collage preexisting images together #and once you have the elements of the picture then it's easy to retroactively construct a balanced tableau #tl:dr creativity is hard and makes CPU explode but editing is easy #that being said if a mutual wants me to draw an animal or something for them & gives me a reference I will drop everything to do it. dm me. #seriously I'm good w anything organic like plants or animals or horrible growths #hell if u do thumbnails I'll draw the full thing. I'll write w you. I fuckin love collaboration. #might be a bad writing partner though cause I'm neurotic as hell #. #I just remembered that Dan Garret was in earth 19 last time it was shown in a comic #no offense to all you dan-heads out there. but I think he should die. #cause I would be. obsessed. With 1890s Chicago cryptid Ted Kord #I think he should be 23 and terrible #the most steampunk guy around. Probably takes cocaine. Still a college student (gettin his fourth degree). Hasn't left his house in a month #not to mention futureboy Booster in his kevlar vest with his iphone named skeets

[katnissgirlsmakedo]

“where’s the whimsy??” it is in IZOMBIE. the show that just gets better with every episode… liv’s about to eat HOCKEY BRAINS and major and don e are on a road trip with a kidnappee in their trunk while peyton deals with zombie racism and ravi and clive get sooooo excited to see hockey liv….. this is the best show ever….

#isn’t is so crazy that i originally planned to watch it in october 2021 #if that had happened literally nothing would be the same #also i wouldn’t have like it then #the absolute perfect chain of events led me to liv i wouldn’t have it any other way <3 #actually if i could change one thing. #nope. not entertaining that thought. that british man being there was necessary in the same way that a rainstorm is necessary for the growth #of all plant life and in turn animal life…. #what’s that song #rain makes corn corn makes whiskey. etc. rain is a good thing….. #what was i talking about how did we get here #oh yeah. like god bless the broken road that led me to izombie fr!!!!! #izombie lb

[thatboxylady]

I got chewed on by the fattest fire ants yesterday while mowing my lawn and I still need to finish and ehghguhhhhh.

#florida heat + yardwork = die #i would let it overgrow and encourage natural wildflower growth BUT #when you live where there are diamondback rattlesnakes????? #i need to see where the fuck I am stepping to ALSO not die #it'll be another year before I start getting natural plants and stuff back there while also keeping it safe for myself and any sneks #the blue jays seem pretty thrilled about the short grass tho they are all popping around out there lookin' for bugs

[caffeinatedopossum]

Poetry prompt: under the sea’s eyes

Oo thanks for the prompt! I think I'm gonna have fun with this one

Under the seas eyes:

I gazed at the ocean

With eyes glazed over

Overwhelmed by regret

That I will never really know her

I wonder what she has seen

And where she has been

Guided by the moon

And enveloped by the wind

I wish I could speak this language

Of seafoam and waves

Oh, what poetry it must be

To harbor both so many lives and so many graves

And though her stormy depths

Are a place I dare not dive

I'll wonder all my life

Which one of us is more alive

I hope this reverence

Is enough on its own

To appreciate from the shore

The nature of things that can't be known

Feel free to give me more prompts if ya'll want! I really enjoyed this

#wow so this unlocked feelings i didnt know i had #the moon and the sun are lesbians. everyone knows this #but i just realized the ocean is polyamarous and the sun and the moon and her are all in love #on a different note though. this is a poem about a fear of the unknown #in my case an actual fear of swimming in the ocean #but sometimes i look at the ocean from the shore and i think #why is it that we speak of the ocean as if its only one thing? #the ocean has changed and lived and breathed more than anyone alive today #it has so much plant and animal life and has carried and ended so much human life #its been the solace and pride of sailors and pirates and fishers for longer than i can imagine #its been the home to the skeletons of ships long forgotten and still on the ocean floor #its alive and so old and so full of life and death and growth #i cant help being scared but pulled to it all the same #like i need it to understand that i am here. observing it. recognizing it. #im alive but not as alive as she is #and i think thats beautiful and profoundly terrifying #i like to think about how the power of the waves crashing into the rocks and shells and bones and waterlogged ships #turns it slowly over time into sand #like even in the death and the rage and the uncontrollable current #you will become something new #even if its something that breaks you down into a million smaller pieces #you will never quite be the same again #you're now like your own ecosystem that will never die the same way twice #i take comfort in that in a weird way #i never want to die the same way twice

[scary-senpai]

For everyone following along at home.

Although I have since captured the head seeds in a jar and now I feel a bit better.

#underqualified plant mom #most of my personal stuff goes on my main blog unless i feel like it could have also been written by garou #in which case it goes on here #(see previous post about how I got chemical burns trying to repot all the outdoor flowers to bring them indoors) #(thereby extending the growth cycle by a few weeks)

[ghostlyfoliage]

I'm going to have several larger specimens of miner's lettuce this year. It's starting to rival those in my sister's yard. I hope it continues to spread as I'd be happy to have these everywhere as they sprout in winter when it's still too cold for the invasive annuals.

For an example, this is usually how big these are at this time of year. It's interesting how they display several colors from this rusty grey/red all the way to light green and everything between.

The coyote tobacco is creating mats and giving the chickweed a fight that it seems to be winning. They seeded so much the last two years that my small patch has come to take up most of this section of the front yard along with some asters.

Scorpion weed is one of the perennial natives on the property. Their leaves are quite fuzzy and they don't die back during winter unlike the violets (which are still quite small this time of year).

And there's another new native this year. It's lucky I saw it so early because this coloring will fade as it grows, making identification difficult without a flower. It's an annual named Clarkia rhomboidea (aka Diamond Clarkia). Very nice indeed, though I have no idea where it came from. They can get to be a decent size (3ft), so we'll see how this goes...

#plantblr #plants #outdoor plants #native plants #my tending brings all the natives to the yard and they're like THANKS FOR TAKING OUT THE CHEATGRASS AND BS SO WE CAN THRIVE! #seriously though I have a lot of grass to murder #it never ends with the grass #i already pulled a lot of weeds and I'm nowhere near done #obviously I'm leaving the dandelions alone #I'm also leaving the storks bills. chickweed. draga. and henbit #they're all smaller plants that aren't much of a pain #eventually I'll end up thinning some of it out probably #but for now it's ok #like... I'm pulling the obnoxious shit and I keep getting more natives moving in despite the chickweed making mats #the earliest non-native to sprout is the storks bills #but they sure do invite the early season polinators and I need those for my strawberries that are already flowering #I'm honestly surprised cheatgrass isn't classified higher cus it puts out a chemical that inhibits growth of other plants #which gives it a significant edge #chickweed and storks bills just sprout early in the season #miner's lettuce is sprouting back up in late fall and dgaf about the cold #storks bills are out there as soon as winter starts to warm #chickweed is tail of winter to early spring #so.... #I have been paying attention to their habits for a couple years now #cheatgrass is out there about the time as stork's bills and with it's qualities is a massive pain in the ass

[cabinet-of-ecologies]

I hate this I hate this I hate this I hate this

#sitting all day listening to my classmates present for plant morpho? #may not technically be the worst thing ive been through this term but BOY HOWDY #im done being nice #i have no patience #i did not sleep enough #50% of this class is certifiably stupid #and quite clearly didnt get some core messages #like: growth does not equal development #xylem and phloem's function #cjdjdkdjfjv gonna scream if anyone defines a simple term that we have used all term EVER AGAIN #just talk about your shit #and not to sound like your least favorite high school teacher but STOP SAYING UM #STOP ADDING SO MANY CAVEATS TO WHAT YOU SAY #SHUT UP

[hazard-symbols-that-fuck-hard]

Get ready kids, because I’m about to tell you all about gamma gardening!

Basically, after WWII, some people were interested in using fission energy for good. One of the uses they came up with was to create useful genetic mutations in plants.

But unlike today’s careful gene editing, gamma gardens took the “just blast them with radiation and pray that the RNG gods give you something good” approach.

According to Wikipedia, the methodology was as follows:

Gamma gardens were typically five acres in size, and were arranged in a circular pattern with a retractable radiation source in the middle. Plants were usually laid out like slices of a pie, stemming from the central radiation source; this pattern produced a range of radiation doses over the radius from the center. Radioactive bombardment would take place for around twenty hours, after which scientists wearing protective equipment would enter the garden and assess the results. The plants nearest the center usually died, while the ones further out often featured "tumors and other growth abnormalities". Beyond these were the plants of interest, with a higher than usual range of mutations, though not to the damaging extent of those closer to the radiation source. These gamma gardens have continued to operate on largely the same designs as those conceived in the 1950s.

They’ve decreased greatly in popularity as the reputation of radiation has gone down the toilet, but one notable product of gamma gardens is the ‘Ruby Red’ grapefruit!

^ this is a proper Fallout-style mutant

[reasonsforhope]

Ancient redwoods recover from fire by sprouting 1000-year-old buds

Article | Paywall free

When lightning ignited fires around California’s Big Basin Redwoods State Park north of Santa Cruz in August 2020, the blaze spread quickly. Redwoods naturally resist burning, but this time flames shot through the canopies of 100-meter-tall trees, incinerating the needles. “It was shocking,” says Drew Peltier, a tree ecophysiologist at Northern Arizona University. “It really seemed like most of the trees were going to die.”

Yet many of them lived. In a paper published yesterday in Nature Plants, Peltier and his colleagues help explain why: The charred survivors, despite being defoliated [aka losing all their needles], mobilized long-held energy reserves—sugars that had been made from sunlight decades earlier—and poured them into buds that had been lying dormant under the bark for centuries.

“This is one of those papers that challenges our previous knowledge on tree growth,” says Adrian Rocha, an ecosystem ecologist at the University of Notre Dame. “It is amazing to learn that carbon taken up decades ago can be used to sustain its growth into the future.” The findings suggest redwoods have the tools to cope with catastrophic fires driven by climate change, Rocha says. Still, it’s unclear whether the trees could withstand the regular infernos that might occur under a warmer climate regime.

Mild fires strike coastal redwood forests about every decade. The giant trees resist burning thanks to the bark, up to about 30 centimeters thick at the base, which contains tannic acids that retard flames. Their branches and needles are normally beyond the reach of flames that consume vegetation on the ground. But the fire in 2020 was so intense that even the uppermost branches of many trees burned and their ability to photosynthesize went up in smoke along with their pine needles.

Trees photosynthesize to create sugars and other carbohydrates, which provide the energy they need to grow and repair tissue. Trees do store some of this energy, which they can call on during a drought or after a fire. Still, scientists weren’t sure these reserves would prove enough for the burned trees of Big Basin.

Visiting the forest a few months after the fire, Peltier and his colleagues found fresh growth emerging from blackened trunks. They knew that shorter lived trees can store sugars for several years. Because redwoods can live for more than 2000 years, the researchers wondered whether the trees were drawing on much older energy reserves to grow the sprouts.

Average age is only part of the story. The mix of carbohydrates also contained some carbon that was much older. The way trees store their sugar is like refueling a car, Peltier says. Most of the gasoline was added recently, but the tank never runs completely dry and so a few molecules from the very first fill-up remain. Based on the age and mass of the trees and their normal rate of photosynthesis, Peltier calculated that the redwoods were calling on carbohydrates photosynthesized nearly 6 decades ago—several hundred kilograms’ worth—to help the sprouts grow. “They allow these trees to be really fire-resilient because they have this big pool of old reserves to draw on,” Peltier says.

It's not just the energy reserves that are old. The sprouts were emerging from buds that began forming centuries ago. Redwoods and other tree species create budlike tissue that remains under the bark. Scientists can trace the paths of these buds, like a worm burrowing outward. In samples taken from a large redwood that had fallen after the fire, Peltier and colleagues found that many of the buds, some of which had sprouted, extended back as much as 1000 years. “That was really surprising for me,” Peltier says. “As far as I know, these are the oldest ones that have been documented.”

... “The fact that the reserves used are so old indicates that they took a long time to build up,” says Susan Trumbore, a radiocarbon expert at the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry. “Redwoods are majestic organisms. One cannot help rooting for those resprouts to keep them alive in decades to come.”

-via Science, December 1, 2023

#redwoods #california #wildfire #climate change #extreme heat #natural disasters #botany #plant biology #photosynthesis #santa cruz #hopepunk #sustainability #climate hope #united states #good news #hope

[nellasbookplanet]

'Enjoy it despite its flaws' is one thing, but Mass Effect somehow invented its own category: 'simultaneously one of the most flawed and the most well-crafted sci-fi stories I've ever experienced'. These games are incredible. They’re the worst. All the women are sexualized. All the women have deeply flawed and complex personalities without being either demonized or romanticized. The first available f/f ship seems to be written along the guidelines of 'what would a straight man find hot'. As the games go on, they effortlessly include multiple same sex romance options given just as much care and development as the the opposite sex ones. You can play as a xenophobic murderhobo asshole. You can play as someone genuinely caring but also harsh, who inspires growth and co-operation wherever you go but who makes hard choices when you have to. You can kill civilians and punch reporters and commit genocide. You can stop a generational war and mediate peace and save several species from extinction. The robots are stereotypically evil cannon fodder. The robots are deeply complex with a tragic history. Your team mates are assholes with xenophobic opinions or justifications for police brutality and genocide, or they just want excuses to Do Murder. You team mates are deeply flawed and can be urged to grow alongside you. The most important aliens are all humanoids. There are plant aliens and jellyfish aliens and insect aliens and elephant aliens and aliens who can’t share an atmosphere with us. You have to drive around countless identically boring planets with little to show for it. You get to discover hidden secrets and civilisations millions of years old and live through some of the most emotionally harrowing scenes in storytelling history. I am going absolutely insane about it.

#mass effect #up next let me talk about how andromedas biggest flaw (not perceived flaw but ACTUAL flaw) is how it lacks these highs and lows #sure it doesn’t fall into the same problematic tropes as the trilogy sometimes does #but in its fear to take risks it also fails to hit the highs of when the risks pays off #nella talks

[txttletale]

I'm asking this genuinely, as a 19 yo with no education in economics and a pretty surface level understanding of socialism: can you explain the whole Bananas discourse in a way someone like me might understand? In my understanding it's just "This is just a product we can give up to create better worker conditions and that's fine" but apparently that's not the full picture?

alright so some pretty important background to all this is that we're all talking about the fact that bananas, grown in the global south, are available year-round at extremely low prices all around europe and the USA. it's not really about bananas per so--the banana in this discourse is a synechdoche for all the economic benefits of imperialism.

so how are cheap bananas a result of imperialism? first of all i want to tackle a common and v. silly counterargument: 'oh, these ridiculous communists think it's imperialist for produce to be shipped internationally'. nah. believing that this is the communist objection requires believing in a deeply naive view of international traide. this view goes something like 'well, if honduras has lots of bananas, and people in the usa want bananas and are willing to pay for them, surely everyone wins when the usa buys bananas!'.

there are of course two key errors here and they are both packed into 'honduras has lots of bananas'. for a start, although the bananas are grown in honduras, honduras doesn't really 'have' them, because the plantations are mostly owned by chiquita (formerly known as united fruit) dole, del monte, and other multinationals--when they're not, those multinationals will usually purchase the bananas from honduran growers and conduct the export themselves. and wouldn't you know it, it's those intervening middleman steps--export, import, and retail, where the vast majority of money is made off bananas! so in the process of a banana making its way from honduras to a 7/11, usamerican multinationals make money selling the bananas to usamerican importers who make money selling them to usamerican retailers who make money selling them to usamerican customers.

when chiquita sells a banana to be sold in walmart, a magic trick is being performed: a banana is disappearing from honduras, and yet somehow an american company is paying a second american company for it! this is economic imperialism, the usamerican multinational extracting resources from a nation while simultaneously pocketing the value of those resources.

why does the honduran government allow this? if selling bananas is such a bad deal for the nation, why do they continue to export millions of dollars of banans a year? well, obviously, there's the fact that if they didn't, they would face a coup. the united states is more than willing to intervene and cause mass death and war to protect the profits of its multinationals. but the second, more subtle thing keeping honduras bound to this ridiculously unbalanced relationship is the need for dollars. because the US dollar is the global reserve currency, and the de facto currency of international trade, exporting to the USA is a basic necessity for nations like honduras, guatemala, &c. why is the dollar the global reserve currency? because of usamerican military and economic hegemony, of course. imperialism built upon imperialism!

this is unequal exchange, the neoimperialist terms of international trade that make the 'global economy' a tool of siphoning value and resources from the global south to the imperial core. & this is the second flaw to unravel in 'honduras has a lot of bananas' -- honduras only 'has a lot of bananas' because this global economic hegemony has led to vast unsustainable monoculture banana plantations to dominate the agriculture of honduras. it's long-attested how monoculture growth is unsustainable because it destroys soil and leads to easily-wiped-out-by-infection plants.

so, bananas in the USA are cheap because:

the workers that grow them are barely paid, mistreated, prevented from unionizing, and sometimes murdered

the nations in which the bananas are grown accept brutally unfair trade and tariff terms with the USA because they desperately need a supply of US dollars and so have little position to negotiate

shipping is also much cheaper than it should be because sailors are chronically underpaid and often not paid at all or forced to pay to work (!)

bananas are cheap, in conclusion, because they're produced by underpaid and brutalized workers and then imported on extortionate and unfair terms.

so what, should we all give up bananas? no, and it's a sign of total lack of understanding of socialism as a global movement that all the pearl-clutching usamericans have latched onto the scary communists telling them to stop buying bananas. communism does not care about you as a consumer. individual consumptive choices are not a meaningful arena of political action. the socialist position is not "if there was a socialist reovlution in the usa, we would all stop eating bananas like good little boys", but rather, "if there's a socialist revolution in the countries where bananas are grown, then the availability of bananas in the usa is going to drop, and if you want to be an anti-imperialist in the imperial core you have to accept that".

(this is where the second argument i see about this, 'oh what are you catholic you want me to eat dirt like a monk?' reveals itself as a silly fucking solipsistic misunderstanding)

and again, let's note that the case of the banana can very easily be generalised out to coffee, chocolate, sugar, etc, and that it's not about individual consumptive habits, but about global economic systems. if you are donkey fucking kong and you eat 100 bananas a day i don't care and neither does anyone else. it's about trying to illustrate just one tiny mundane way in which economic imperialism makes the lives of people in the global north more convenient and simpler and so of course there is enormous pushback from people who attach moral value to this and therefore feel like the mean commies are personally calling them evil for eating a nutella or whatever which is frankly pretty tiring. Sad!

tldr: it is not imperialism when produce go on boat but it is imperialism when produce grown for dirt cheap by underpaid workers in a country with a devalued currency is then bought and exported and sold by usamerican companies creating huge amounts of economic value of which the nation in which the banana was grown, let alone the people who actually fucking grew it, don't see a cent -- and this is the engine behind the cheap, available-every-day-all-year-everywhere presence of bananas in the usa (and other places!)

#ask

[parameddic]

hmmmmmm

#thinking very hard about. tk planting his feet in growth #tk refusing to Not change #nothing stays the same forever (a promise; not a threat) #tk thinks of this. as a promise. not a threat. #.... i think i used up all my writing tk yesterday trying to catch up on drafts dkjflskjfkdj #i did not catch up and tomorrow is a work day! #i will drop in when i can otherwise be safe be well be warm <3

[dravidious]

:)

Hey, good afternoon! How do my antennae look?

Well, gotta go, don't wanna be late for my flipper graft!

#asks #custom cards #this elian is in the simic combine on ravnica and is human! #or rather they were human #the only reason they still have the human type is so that you can't choose human with its ability lol #there's bigger and better things to become! #jellyfish! shark! plant! this is simic growth! #i'm still not totally sure about the ability but it does result in mutating elian into a monstrous abomination so it's cool #the only tragedy is that there's no good reason to choose cat :( #also this card could be just mono-green but i had to fit at least one of elian's colors on there #i also want to make an All Will Be One card for elian but i haven't touched mtg in months lol #none of the mechanics jump out at me either #maybe some day